As Tory MP Penny Mordaunt hopes to unveil a talent for diving in reality show Splash, Labour’s Luciana Berger has a secret skill of her own: photography. The newly appointed shadow minister for public health found to her surprise that The National, the English language newspaper in Abu Dhabi, had picked up and printed photograph of a mosque that she had taken.

French prosecutors investigating the skiing accident which left Michael Schumacher with a serious head injury have confirmed video footage taken from a camera on his helmet shows the seven-time Formula One champion was several metres off piste when he fell.

Neither defendant was in the dock for the verdicts having been excused by Judge Robin Johnson after Elisabetta Grillo collapsed three times this morning - twice at home and again in the court reception.